@containedArmageddons — #rant
there is a technique that's bec0me so c0mmon 0n antisocial, afterlife-accessible media that it's reached the point 0f utter banality to me. yet it seems tw0 onesh0t the many unsuspecting masses because it so artfully preys 0n one's better nature. luckily i have a fucking terrible nature s0 i can make a psa on it with0ut giving a shit. it's called 'reputation laundering' and it sickens me. 0ne of the c0ldest calculations y0u can make and utterly disgusting for it. pretty much requires kn0wledge of h0w heinous and undeserving 0f a person y0u are in every iteration tw0 employ, and debases y0urself even fu...Read more
"b-b-but s0llux, they kept knowing things ab0ut the future!" so the fuck d0es anyone wh0 forecasts the weather. there's a fine line where being real smart and a g0od guesser 0verlap intwo pr0phecy. but it's a temporary meeting 0f two c0mponents. b0th of which fuck up c0nstantly. what d0 you call a gambler wh0 wins all night? on a h0t streak. lucky. not 0mniscient. what do y0u call one wh0 wins all the time? every night? vriska serket. oh right, and dead. the amount at which y0u can keep up the streak of intuiti0n and guesswork never reaches infinity because infinity cann0t be reached. that's how ...Read more
any real pr0gramming language will see a variable and instantly know if it's a zer0id falsepost 0r a truecore anything other than zer0. mental illness languages like C# will throw hissy fits and demand y0u do stupid shit like writing x != 0 explicitly like it's s0me magic word. newsflash! a real c0mputer will not wait until y0u say please two d0 its job it 0nly asks for the next instructi0n. so st0p that sillyness and use real languages like ~ath or krunk. #rant